Re: [Pnet-developers] A few SWF ideas

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Feb-2004, Rich Baumann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:19, Ilyak wrote:
> > How about to make it FUN:
> > (house image)Homedir
> > (mountain image)Mountpoints
> > - (root picture) /
> > - (house image) /home
> > - (windows icon) /mnt/win_main
> > - (gear picture) /usr
> > and so on....
> 
> Using icons based on phonetic similarities (i.e. a mountain image for
> Mountpoints) is an I18N and usability problem. If the word "Mountpoints"
> translates to something which is totally different than the word to
> which "mountain" translates, the meaning of the icon is lost, and the
> user will likely be confused. For something like the home directory, a
> house image works because its meaning is related to the concept of home,
> not the word "home".

Right.  So a better icon for mount points would be something like
a horse with saddle, for example.

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